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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Jewell Loyd scored 18 points and top-seed Notre Dame used its size and speed to overwhelm 16th-seeded Montana, 77-43. Brianna Turner added 12 points and Michaela Mabrey, Taya Reimer and Lindsay Allen added nine points each as Notre Dame shot 62.3 percent against the Lady Griz (24-9). Montana entered the game fourth in the nation in field-goal defense, allowing opponents to shoot 33.8 percent. The Irish (32-2) won their 18th straight game while Montana lost for the 11th straight time in the opening round of the tournament. Kayleigh Valley led Montana with nine points and six rebounds. The Irish outscored Montana 42-24 in the paint and 8-0 on fast-break points.It was...

Kim Mulkey and Brooke Stoehr were both NCAA Final Four point guards at Louisiana Tech.The former pupils of legendary women's coach Leon Barmore are now coaching against each other in the NCAA Tournament. Mulkey's perennial Big 12 champion Lady Bears are...

PALO ALTO, Calif. — They came from opposite ends of a large state — Ryan Boatright from the east, just outside Chicago, and Chasson Randle from the west, on the banks of the Mississippi River. Their paths never crossed.Yet in 2011, both had their hands on...

Now that the men have had their opening-round fun, the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament gets its start Saturday with 16 games across the land. UConn opens defense of its title Sunday at Gampel Pavilion against Prairie View at 8.
Here are...

Missy Franklin has bid farewell to college swimming and is turning pro. The four-time Olympic gold medalist went out with a bang, winning three individual events and helping her California team win the NCAA championship last weekend. Now, Franklin can...

The NCAA women's basketball tournament field was announced Monday, and usual suspects took the spotlight.
Connecticut, the top seed overall, will try for its third consecutive national title. Tennessee, the second-seeded team in the Spokane region,...

Arizona was unable to get much of a flow against California's physical defense in the first half.
Once the Wildcats got rolling, there was no stopping them.
Stanley Johnson had 19 points, Brandon Ashley added 15 and No. 5 Arizona ran away from Cal in...

LAS VEGAS Just in case it didn't have a vivid memory of its 39-point loss to Arizona just one week before, the Cal basketball team was treated to a video replay on the eve of its Pac-12 tournament rematch with the Wildcats. "We didn't give up...

LAS VEGAS David Kravish missed his first six shots against Washington State but rarely missed again as Cal posted a decisive 84-59 victory in the opening round of the Pac-12 tournament Wednesday. Kravish scored a career-high 25 points, and the No. 8...

Taylor Greenfield scored a career-high 20 points on eight-for-11 shooting, Amber Orrange had 10 points in the second half and No. 19 Stanford won its 11th Pac-12 Conference tournament championship with a 61-60 victory over California on Sunday night.
The...

Oregon football's near-pathological aversion to injury acknowledgment is legendary, if not comical.
The company line reminds you of that line from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" — "It's just a flesh wound" — as a knight's limbs are...

Linebacker Eric Kendricks has established a UCLA career record for tackles during his four years with the Bruins.
Mychal Kendricks, 17 months older and also a linebacker, is considered a rising star for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles.
The brothers have...

Steve Sarkisian and his staff will have plenty of material to dissect as USC prepares for its Nov. 22 showdown against UCLA and Bruins quarterback Brett Hundley.
Hundley led the Bruins to victories over USC in 2012 and 2013, which predated Sarkisian's...

USC was idle during the weekend, but the Trojans will return to practice this week with a better chance of winning the Pac-12 Conference South.
Arizona State's defeat by Oregon State at Corvallis, Ore., improved USC's prospects.
If USC defeats UCLA on...

UCLA can only hope its football players are as prepared for USC as they were Monday for the questions of a larger-than-usual media contingent.
Players followed strict guidelines: No inflammatory comments about the Trojans. No talk about possibly being...

USC cornerback Josh Shaw, who has been suspended all season for fabricating a story about how he suffered ankle injuries, will not face charges in connection with an August incident at his apartment, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office...

After a bye last Saturday, USC faces a high-scoring California team that ended a three-game losing streak with a victory over Oregon State last week. Staff writer Gary Klein examines the storylines and matchups:
Buffalo brothers
USC quarterback Cody...

Season-ending rivalry games against UCLA and Notre Dame are looming. But USC players said all the right things this week as they prepared for Thursday night's game against California.
Unless the question was asked, there was no mention of the Bruins or...

USC has not defeated UCLA since 2011, when the Trojans humiliated the Bruins, 50-0.
Since then, the Bruins have repeatedly embarrassed USC and shifted the momentum in the series.
Despite a 38-20 defeat that extended the Trojans' losing streak against...

Each week our national college football writer describes how he would handle the television remote on Saturday, handicapping what's worth watching, and skipping:
MORNING
Indiana (3-7) at No. 6 Ohio State (9-1)
9 a.m., Big Ten Network (BTN)
Indiana...